Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
TRUMAN CAPOTEPast certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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Good writing is rewriting.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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